Tuesday, June 4 2013

Established in 1874, the Kansas City, Missouri Police Department has for 138 years protected our citizens while keeping abreast of changes in criminology, transportation, technology, and society. This long and colorful history is examined in a new exhibit, Kansas City’s Finest.

Hixon transformed the field of portrait photography in Kansas City and the surrounding region during a career that spanned more than seven decades. His studios—the first in the Brady Building at 11th and Main Streets, and the second just one block west in the Baltimore Hotel—welcomed thousands of patrons throughout the 1910s and 1920s.

Pulp painting illustrations, and rhyming text spotlight the underground world of burrowing, tunneling, and digging animals. Includes "Creature identification identification" page.
Do you ever wonder what creatures live under the dirt beneath your feet? Come down, way down, and explore....

Join librarian and naturalist Clare Hollander for a 4 week series of story times centered on the Laura McPhee exhibit "River of No Return" at the Kemper Museum of Contemporary Art, 4420 Warwick Blvd Kansas City, MO 64111.

As America’s biggest private corporation, ExxonMobil has economic power and political clout exceeding that of many countries. Yet its corporate culture of secrecy and discipline makes it a mystery to most of us.

Author Steve Coll unearths the company’s secrets in Private Empire, tracking the corporation’s role on the world stage from the Exxon Valdez accident in 1989 to the Deepwater Horizon oil spill in 2010.